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	Author	Svobodová, I.; Chaloupková, H.; Kon?el, R.; Barto?, L.?k; Hradecká, L.; Jebavý, L.?
	Title	Cortisol and Secretory Immunoglobulin A Response to Stress in German Shepherd Dogs			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	PLoS ONE	Abbreviated Journal	PLoS ONE
	Volume	9	Issue	3	Pages	e90820
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	Abstract	<p>The aim of the study was to determine whether cortisol and secretory Immunoglobulin A (sIgA) could be used as an indicator of acute stress in both young and adult dogs. Seventeen German shepherd puppies were exposed to the Puppy test (challenge test) at the age of seven weeks. This test has been routinely used to assess the future working ability of potential police dogs. In addition, ten adult females were subjected to 4 minutes of defense training under stressful conditions. Saliva was collected from the puppies and adult females before testing and 20 minutes after the start of testing, using a cotton swab held for 1?2 minutes in each dog's mouth. Cortisol concentrations increased after the test compared to the control sample both in puppies and the adult females. However adult females showed a significant decrease in sIgA after defense training while puppies showed a tendency of increase in sIgA. We propose that salivary cortisol could be used as an indicator of stress in puppies during early ontogeny. It is not yet clear whether sIgA could be used as a useful indicator of short-term stress in dogs.</p>
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	Publisher	Public Library of Science	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	5963
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	Author	Pinho, G.M.; Gonçalves da Silva, A.; Hrbek, T.; Venticinque, E.M.; Farias, I.P.
	Title	Kinship and Social Behavior of Lowland Tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) in a Central Amazon Landscape			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Plos One	Abbreviated Journal	Plos One
	Volume	9	Issue	3	Pages	e92507
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	Abstract	We tested the hypothesis that tapirs tolerate individuals from adjacent and overlapping home ranges if they are related. We obtained genetic data from fecal samples collected in the Balbina reservoir landscape, central Amazon. Samples were genotyped at 14 microsatellite loci, of which five produced high quality informative genotypes. Based on an analysis of 32 individuals, we inferred a single panmictic population with high levels of heterozygosity. Kinship analysis identified 10 pairs of full siblings or parent-offspring, 10 pairs of half siblings and 25 unrelated pairs. In 10 cases, the related individuals were situated on opposite margins of the reservoir, suggesting that tapirs are capable of crossing the main river, even after damming. The polygamous model was the most likely mating system for Tapirus terrestris. Moran's I index of allele sharing between pairs of individuals geographically close (<3 km) was similar to that observed between individual pairs at larger distances (>3 km). Confirming this result, the related individuals were not geographically closer than unrelated ones (W = 188.5; p = 0.339). Thus, we found no evidence of a preference for being close to relatives and observed a tendency for dispersal. The small importance of relatedness in determining spatial distribution of individuals is unusual in mammals, but not unheard of. Finally, non-invasive sampling allowed efficient access to the genetic data, despite the warm and humid climate of the Amazon, which accelerates DNA degradation.
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	Publisher	Public Library of Science	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	6138
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	Author	Collins, G.H.; Petersen, S.L.; Carr, C.A.; Pielstick, L.
	Title	Testing VHF/GPS Collar Design and Safety in the Study of Free-Roaming Horses			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Plos One	Abbreviated Journal	Plos One
	Volume	9	Issue	9	Pages	e103189
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	Abstract	Effective and safe monitoring techniques are needed by U.S. land managers to understand free-roaming horse behavior and habitat use and to aid in making informed management decisions. Global positioning system (GPS) and very high frequency (VHF) radio collars can be used to provide high spatial and temporal resolution information for detecting free-roaming horse movement. GPS and VHF collars are a common tool used in wildlife management, but have rarely been used for free-roaming horse research and monitoring in the United States. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the design, safety, and detachment device on GPS/VHF collars used to collect free-roaming horse location and movement data. Between 2009 and 2010, 28 domestic and feral horses were marked with commercial and custom designed VHF/GPS collars. Individual horses were evaluated for damage caused by the collar placement, and following initial observations, collar design was modified to reduce the potential for injury. After collar modifications, which included the addition of collar length adjustments to both sides of the collar allowing for better alignment of collar and neck shapes, adding foam padding to the custom collars to replicate the commercial collar foam padding, and repositioning the detachment device to reduce wear along the jowl, we observed little to no evidence of collar wear on horses. Neither custom-built nor commercial collars caused injury to study horses, however, most of the custom-built collars failed to collect data. During the evaluation of collar detachment devices, we had an 89% success rate of collar devices detaching correctly. This study showed that free-roaming horses can be safely marked with GPS and/or VHF collars with minimal risk of injury, and that these collars can be a useful tool for monitoring horses without creating a risk to horse health and wellness.
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	Publisher	Public Library of Science	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	6209
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	Author	Monfardini, E.; Hadj-Bouziane, F.; Meunier, M.
	Title	Model-Observer Similarity, Error Modeling and Social Learning in Rhesus Macaques			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Plos One	Abbreviated Journal	Plos One
	Volume	9	Issue	2	Pages	e89825
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	Abstract	Monkeys readily learn to discriminate between rewarded and unrewarded items or actions by observing their conspecifics. However, they do not systematically learn from humans. Understanding what makes human-to-monkey transmission of knowledge work or fail could help identify mediators and moderators of social learning that operate regardless of language or culture, and transcend inter-species differences. Do monkeys fail to learn when human models show a behavior too dissimilar from the animals' own, or when they show a faultless performance devoid of error? To address this question, six rhesus macaques trained to find which object within a pair concealed a food reward were successively tested with three models: a familiar conspecific, a 'stimulus-enhancing' human actively drawing the animal's attention to one object of the pair without actually performing the task, and a 'monkey-like' human performing the task in the same way as the monkey model did. Reward was manipulated to ensure that all models showed equal proportions of errors and successes. The 'monkey-like' human model improved the animals' subsequent object discrimination learning as much as a conspecific did, whereas the 'stimulus-enhancing' human model tended on the contrary to retard learning. Modeling errors rather than successes optimized learning from the monkey and 'monkey-like' models, while exacerbating the adverse effect of the 'stimulus-enhancing' model. These findings identify error modeling as a moderator of social learning in monkeys that amplifies the models' influence, whether beneficial or detrimental. By contrast, model-observer similarity in behavior emerged as a mediator of social learning, that is, a prerequisite for a model to work in the first place. The latter finding suggests that, as preverbal infants, macaques need to perceive the model as 'like-me' and that, once this condition is fulfilled, any agent can become an effective model.
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	Publisher	Public Library of Science	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	6195
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	Author	Range, F.; Virányi, Z.
	Title	Wolves are better imitators of conspecifics than dogs			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	PLoS One	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	9	Issue		Pages
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	Abstract	Domestication is thought to have influenced the cognitive abilities of dogs underlying their communication with humans, but little is known about its effect on their interactions with conspecifics. Since domestication hypotheses offer limited predictions in regard to wolf-wolf compared to dog-dog interactions, we extend the cooperative breeding hypothesis suggesting that the dependency of wolves on close cooperation with conspecifics, including breeding but also territory defense and hunting, has created selection pressures on motivational and cognitive processes enhancing their propensity to pay close attention to conspecifics’ actions. During domestication, dogs’ dependency on conspecifics has been relaxed, leading to reduced motivational and cognitive abilities to interact with conspecifics. Here we show that 6-month-old wolves outperform same aged dogs in a two-action-imitation task following a conspecific demonstration. While the wolves readily opened the apparatus after a demonstration, the dogs failed to solve the problem. This difference could not be explained by differential motivation, better physical insight of wolves, differential developmental pathways of wolves and dogs or a higher dependency of dogs from humans. Our results are best explained by the hypothesis that higher cooperativeness may come together with a higher propensity to pay close attention to detailed actions of others and offer an alternative perspective to domestication by emphasizing the cooperativeness of wolves as a potential source of dog-human cooperation.
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	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @ Range2014			Serial	6246
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	Author	Wolter, R.; Pantel, N.; Stefanski, V.; Möstl, E.; Krueger, K.
	Title	The role of an alpha animal in changing environmental conditions			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Physiology & Behavior	Abbreviated Journal	Physiol. Behav.
	Volume	133	Issue		Pages	236-243
	Keywords	Alpha male; Horse; Equus ferus przewalskii; Bachelor group; Group structure
	Abstract	Abstract The maintenance and development of conservation areas by grazing of large herbivores, such as Przewalski's horses, is common practice. Several nature conservation areas house male bachelor groups of this species. When males are needed for breeding they are removed from the groups, often without considering group compositions and individual social positions. However, alpha animals are needed for ensuring group stability and decision making in potentially dangerous situations in several species. To investigate the role of the alpha male in a bachelor group, we observed the behaviour of five Przewalski's horse males during the enlargement of their enclosure. We analyzed the group's social structure and movement orders, as well as the animals' connectedness, activity budgets, and whether they moved with preferred group members and how factors such as social rank influenced the horses' behaviour. We also investigated the excretion of glucocorticoid metabolites (GCM) via faeces of the horses while exploring a new area as a parameter of glucocorticoid production. Our results show that the alpha male is important for a bachelor group in changing environmental conditions. The alpha male had the highest level of connectedness within the group. When exploring the new environment, its position in the group changed from previously being the last to being the first. Furthermore the whole group behaviour changed when exploring the new area. The stallions showed reduced resting behavior, increased feeding and did not stay close to each other. We found that the excretion of glucocorticoid metabolites of most horses rose only marginally during the first days on the new area while only the alpha male showed a significant increased amount of glucocorticoid production during the first day of the enclosure enlargement.
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	ISSN	0031-9384	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes				Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	5818
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	Author	Christensen, J.W.; Beekmans, M.; van Dalum, M.; VanDierendonck, M.
	Title	Effects of hyperflexion on acute stress responses in ridden dressage horses			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Physiology & Behavior	Abbreviated Journal	Physiol. Behav.
	Volume	128	Issue		Pages	39-45
	Keywords	Behaviour; Dressage; Horse; Hyperflexion; Rein tension; Stress
	Abstract	The effects of hyperflexion on the welfare of dressage horses have been debated. This study aimed to investigate acute stress responses of dressage horses ridden in three different Head-and-Neck-positions (HNPs). Fifteen dressage horses were ridden by their usual rider in a standardised 10-min dressage programme in either the competition frame (CF), hyperflexion (“Low-Deep-and-Round”; LDR) or a looser frame (LF) in a balanced order on three separate test days. Heart rate (HR), heart rate variability parameters (HRV), behaviour and rein tension were recorded during the test. Salivary cortisol concentrations were measured 60min before and 0, 5, 15 and 30min after the test. Rein tension was significantly lower in LF and did not differ between CF and LDR; however approx. 15% of recordings in CF and LDR were above the sensor detection limit of 5kg. The horses had significantly higher cortisol concentrations directly after LDR compared to LF. In addition, the horses showed more distinctive head movements, including head waving, during LDR. There were no significant treatment effects on HR and HRV. In conclusion, the results indicate that LDR may be more stressful to these horses during riding.
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	ISSN	0031-9384	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes				Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	6507
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	Author	Krueger, K.
	Title	Die Bedeutung der Schiefe, Händigkeit und sensorische Lateralität der Pferde			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Pferdetage Baden-Württemberg 2014	Abbreviated Journal
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	Publisher	Matthaes Medien	Place of Publication	Stuttgart	Editor
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-3-938053-11-9	Medium
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	Notes				Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	5952
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	Author	Wolter, R.; Pantel, N.; Möstl, E.; Küger, K.
	Title	Das Verhalten von Przewalski Pferden in Semi-Reservaten			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Pferdetage Baden-Württemberg 2014	Abbreviated Journal
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	Publisher	Matthaes Medien	Place of Publication	Stuttgart	Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-3-938053-11-9	Medium
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	Notes				Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	5953
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	Author	Lerbs, S.; Raue, T.; Krüger, K.
	Title	Gibt es einen Zusammenhang zwischen natürlicher Schiefe und motorischer und sensorischer Einseitigkeit der Fohlen (Equus caballus)?			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Pferdetage Baden-Württemberg 2014	Abbreviated Journal
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	Publisher	Matthaes Medien	Place of Publication	Stuttgart	Editor
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-3-938053-11-9	Medium
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	Notes				Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	5954
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